Team Trump Again Tries To Brush Off Major Scandal By Infantilizing Key Staffer

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump and his surrogates and supporters attempted to distance the president from George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser who sought to connect the Trump campaign to Russian officials and then lied to FBI agents about “dirt” he was offered on Hillary Clinton, by belittling the 30-year-old man as a young, low-level staffer who had little access to the president.